Principal Engineer - Software Development
Lennox India Technology Centre
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Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Contract  • Lead level Posted 1 Week, 3 Days ago in.linkedin.com
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Lennox (NYSE: LII)

Driven by 130 years of legacy, HVAC and refrigeration success, Lennox provides our residential and commercial customers with industry-leading climate-control solutions. At Lennox, we win as a team, aiming for excellence and delivering innovative, sustainable products and services. Our culture guides us and creates a workplace where all employees feel heard and welcomed. Lennox is a global community that values each team member’s contributions and offers a supportive environment for career development. Come, stay, and grow with us.

Job Description
  • Develop and maintain Board Support Package (BSP) - low-level software components for Embedded Linux based system including bootloaders, Kernel, firmware and device drivers that interact directly with hardware
  • Understand hardware design/schematics, review and propose changes needed Embedded skills including knowledge and ability to review HW design/schematics and provide inputs. Also, worked extensively on low level firmware/software with micro controllers or micro processors for HVAC or similar embedded software. Ability to define architecture, design from scratch working with other architects, product managers, hw, quality team would be required.
  • Work with different component vendors to get their standard/customized drivers integrated
  • Bring-up for embedded linux based hardware platforms (including linux kernel customization/optimization) in a fast paced manner with high quality
  • pin/gpio config, device driver related issues including display drivers for LCD, touch panel, wifi/bluetooth, sensors, CAN drivers, etc.
  • Technically lead a team of BSP engineers and also perform knowledge transfer from other teams who currently do the BSP bringup , Trouble shoot low level board bring-up issues between hardware-software e.g. linux kernel crashes
Qualifications
  • Requires a bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Requires at least 10 years related experience.
  • Extensive experience (8-10 years) with Embedded Linux BSP development, ability to work with boot loaders, BSPs from different semiconductor vendors
  • Your Board bring-up expertise is a must along with extensive Embedded linux kernel experience. Involved in atleast minimum of 2-3 board bring-up.
  • Min 2 years of experience with Yocto build system to generate file system
  • Minimum of 2 or more number of Kernel migrations completed as part of the BSP development
  • Have used hardware / JTAG based debuggers to debug and fix issues.
  • Understand/review hardware schematics, mindset and experience to identify problems early in the product dev cycle, trouble shoot issues working closely with hardware team
  • Strong C programming skill
  • Ability to technical lead a team providing directions, ramping up additional engineers in Linux BSP board bring-up
  • Familiar with professional software development processes and tools
  • Excellent collaboration, written and oral communication skills to collaborate across and work with different teams - hardware, device vendors, contract manufacturers, software and other stakeholders across geo and trouble shoot issues or complete the bring-up
  • Strong problem-solving skills
  • Ability to work independently with little supervision
  • Able to work in global environment, able to host international calls/group discussions
About Lennox India Technology Centre
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
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